The walking palm trees known as paxiúbas (Socratea exorrhiza) were Rebeca Carapiá’s companions during the days she spent along the Tupana River in the Amazon basin. Using steel, carbon, and copper, the artist spent months casting a forest of sculptures centered on an exploration of language, transformation, wandering, the body, life, and death. Her works are now part of the traveling exhibition of the 36th Bienal in Santos. Read the artist’s full statement below.

The curatorial team, led by chief curators Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca, brings together nine professionals from across the globe.

With careers forged between Brazil and the world’s leading art events and institutions, the duo will curate the 2027 edition at the Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo.

Idealizada por Diane Lima, proposta reúne obras históricas e produções inéditas de Adriana Varejão e Rosana Paulino.

A circular maze that visitors can walk through constitutes the work Muitos nomes [Many Names], created by Sallisa Rosa for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. Composed mainly of tied and interwoven branches and vines, the work is now part of the Bienal’s traveling exhibition in Goiânia. Read the artist’s statement below.

The new administration continues a cycle of institutional transformation, the strengthening of educational initiatives, record-breaking visitor numbers, and the international consolidation of the Bienal de São Paulo.

Over four months, the edition brought together an intense public programme and long-term experiences.

A pioneering platform brings together art, technology, and accessibility in an unprecedented digital mediation experience.

Putting together an exhibition on the scale of a Bienal is a great challenge. To document this two-month process – from constructing the architecture with the installation of walls in the Pavilion to the final adjustments and the installation of artworks alongside the artists – we invited three photographers to capture details, faces, and moments of creation. The third part of this visual essay, produced in August 25 at the Bienal Pavilion, is signed by Ilana Bar.

Entitled Comigo ninguém pode, the exhibition is curated by Diane Lima and features the artists Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão, who will occupy the Brazilian Pavilion from May 2026.

Art is a collective exercise. It takes many hands to build an exhibition. Have you ever wondered who the artist is and who are the people who worked on each artwork? This essay explores the category of portraiture, highlighting artists, installation teams, curators, and staff of the Fundação Bienal. The second part of this visual essay, produced between August 18 and September 4 at the Bienal Pavilion and in artists’ studios, is signed by Fe Avila.

Divided into six chapters, the exhibition features mostly immersive artworks that will be activated performatively in the context of the exhibition’s Conjugations public programs that connect voices and territories across different geographies.

Accreditation for media and cultural professionals for the preview events of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo is now open.

Based on research at the Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo, Gustavo Caboco Wapichana and Tipuici Manoki wondered about Indigenous absence in contemporary art archives. Researcher Marilúcia Bottallo looks at the results of this research and explores other aspects of this process.